In today’s climate of burnout, fear, and fragmentation, leadership requires more than strategy—it calls for presence, relational courage, and embodiment. Leading from the Body introduces a trauma-informed leadership model rooted in somatic awareness and relational intelligence. This approach recognizes that trauma is not only cognitive—it is emotional, non-verbal, and stored in the nervous system. As such, healing and leadership must begin in the body. This interactive session explores how lived experience and embodied presence shape culture, relationships, and organizational change.

In 2022 Victory Programs opened its doors to The Victory Connector, a new drop in space in the Mass and Cass neighborhood. A neighborhood that was already home to methadone clinics, Boston Medical Center (the city hospital), Harm Reduction Providers and two homeless shelters. What could Victory Programs do that was different and meeting an unmet need?